Jane D. Hull Quotes

We want our children to grow up in a safe community.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game of basketball in order to blow off the steam all 5-year-olds have. It's because the parents were unfit, not the kids.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

As long as I am mayor there will be law and order in Chicago.

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

We must work to stop gun violence. I’ve consoled far too many parents whose children were taken too soon. We need to come together across party, racial, and religious lines. It’s time to take responsibility for making sure our babies grow up.

Crime is not going to be stopped by police departments. You have to have police departments but alone they cannot stop crime.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

Certain crimes cannot be prevented unless there is a daily collective work done diligently.